Family Office

Pillar one

Investment Management

Our current investment strategy offering includes:

Guiding you in understanding your goals
Oversight of your exiting private investments
Functioning as your deal team to provide comprehensive due diligence of new investments you are offered
Applying best practices across portfolio investments
Providing a framework for entrepreneurs to build future and/or existing businesses

Castellan’s investment team will guide you on understanding your goals for your future investment. We will then help you create and maintain the three portfolios for successful investment:

Aspirational Portfolio: create dynastic wealth & impactful giving

Venture Capital
Growth Equity
Mature Buyouts

Market Portfolio: fund annual budget & maintain your lifestyle

Volatility Parity
Defined Outcomes

Safety Portfolio: manage risk, create a margin of safety, & fund opportunity

Cash Cushion
Opportunistic Cash
Hard Assets
Insurance

Pillar two

Private Investments

Overall Strategy:

Min $1 mm check size, $2-5 mm preference but will go higher under the right circumstances
Look for situations where Castellan can contribute actively through application of best practices, strategy, and business development
Minimum revenue run-rate of $1 mm with 30-50% year-over-year growth rate
Commercial stage businesses with strong management teams
Target big markets with powerful tailwinds driving them – visibility to $100 mm enterprise value
Preference to be lead investor
Willing to be flexible on capital structure
Invest for the long-term and across all stages from Seed to Pre-IPO

Pillar three

Tax Strategies & Estate Planning

Our Family Office Will Assist You With Two Main Tasks:

Providing Tax Strategies
Developing Your Estate Plan

Steps to Providing the Best Tax Strategies

Coordinate with your advisors on existing tax planning and development of innovative tax strategies
Prepare for the monetization of private investments
Tax impact forecasting – harvest taxable losses
Emphasis on the timing of these tax strategies

Steps to Developing Your Estate Plan

Coordinate and communicate with your tax and legal team
Maximize wealth transfer by creating an estate plan utilizing various vehicles (GST, GRATs, Dynasty Trusts, etc.)
Update plans to reflect current law and tax guidance
Continuous monitoring of wealth and life changes to meet the needs of the family

Pillar four

Philanthropy and Legacy Planning

Our Goals When Planning Your Philanthropy Aspirations and Legacy:

Protecting and Building Your Legacy
Laying a Family Foundation

Steps to Building Your Legacy & Meeting Your Charitable Goals

Comprehensive Legacy Planning Process
- Collaborate with families on their values, purpose, and mission statements
- Develop strategies & charitable goals
- Educate the next generation on your family values, finance, and philanthropy advantages
Ensuring your family values and charitable goals WILL BE ADVANCED
- Establish mission, goals, and objectives
- Advanced grant-making ideas

Steps to Laying Your Family’s Foundation

Assisting in the creation of Family Foundations
- Help direct your donations toward effective causes
- Monitor organizations’ KPIs to confirm the impact and report the results
Operational management of Family Foundations
- Coordination and oversight of Director/Trustee
- Assist and review the filing of 990 and tax compliance

Pillar Five

Reporting & Risk Management

Our operations and family office is tasked with two support systems:

Reporting and Legal Support
Risk Management

Keeping You Informed About Your Universe

Accounting, personal balance sheets, income statements, cash flow documents, personal finance reporting, domestic payroll, and tax preparation
Investment reporting with commentary individualized for the client

We’re Here for Legal Support

Coordinate your outside legal advisors
Manage special litigation situations
Governance and registration of legal entities

Risk Management

Determining proper insurance coverages
Assistance with major personal financial transactions